Defunct political party in Qajar Iran
The Learned Council [ 3] (Persian : هیئت علمیه , romanized : Heyʿat-e Elmīyeh ) was a political group of clerics in the 3rd Parliament , led by Hassan Modarres .[ 1]
According to Touraj Daryaee , it did not consider itself a party and was a group of "hardline rightists particularly opposed to the Democrats ".[ 2] The group opposed the policy of centralization advocated by the government, secularization of penal code, property tax , conscription and women's suffrage .[ 2] [ 3]
References
^ a b Enayat, Hadi (2013). "Chapter 3". Law, State, and Society in Modern Iran: Constitutionalism, Autocracy, and Legal Reform, 1906-1941 . Springer . ISBN 978-1137282026 .
^ a b c Daryaee, Touraj (2012). The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History . Oxford Handbooks in History. Oxford University Press . pp. 340 –341. ISBN 978-0199732159 .
^ a b Amin, Camron Michael (2002). The Making of the Modern Iranian Woman: Gender, State Policy, and Popular Culture, 1865-1946 . University Press of Florida . pp. 38 –40. ISBN 0813031265 .